Fear of Life Fear is a force that lurks within us. It can control our lives, and our thoughts, our emotions and our desires. It can keep us awake till the night dissipates, or till the sun falls beneath the trees. How can it hold so much power and strive above us, and how is such an emotion so easily toyed with? We cannot yet understand, though we must live through it. Philosophers throughout the ages we have studied fear, given certain forms of it extensive names, diagnosed certain people with them, and based our future around it. We were told to fear god, why fear, why not love? An extreme manner indeed, but we find with the extreme come the norm, and so come life, and so come us. I